Pictures of Magnets

Just a very quick update this time. The magnets arrived at the Houston warehouse this week and will start being mailed to $10 and $14 backers shortly (though there will be a gap while Ookoodook's staff attends the GAMA Trade Show this week). All the other production chains are waiting on the money, though I should be getting my sample of the patch any day now. Here's a photo of the magnet on a fine woodgrain surface (NOTE: magnet does not stick to wood):

And here's a photo of 20,000 magnets not on a woodgrain surface of any quality (they're the boxes on the two carts; behind them are the boxes with envelopes):

And since we're on a roll with images, here's today's Workometer:

You'll notice we have our first completed item, highlighted with the purple text. Not much else to say, so I'll leave you with the Five Things I Did Since the Last Update:

Spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to stop the backer information I downloaded from Kickstarter from dropping all vowels with diacritic marks.

Finalized the rulesheet for the Sticky Shtick mini-expansion so formal playtesting can begin.

Finally found a paper that I like for the coloring book, even though it will make it more expensive (for me, not for you). Also, received paper samples for the art print and immediately approved them.

Ignored my email inbox, which I will try to empty this week.

Finished ten more pages of interior art for the coloring book (almost...done...).

That's it for now. If you haven't filled out your survey yet, go do so! If you're waiting for a survey for the autographed packages, they should be going out very soon. (Tomorrow, maybe? Or Monday.) See you all back here when I have something new to show off, and everyone have a nice weekend.

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AS Rich said in update #30
"We won't be able to order any of the books or most of the swag until the money hits my actual bank account around the middle of this month, but there are a few items that I was able to pay for out of money I had saved. "

It seems a trend has been started. Now the author of the webcomic Weregeek is working on funding her latest book over on Indiegogo, a site that looks to be like Kickstarter, but allows non US projects.

Dark Sun was an older D&D campaign setting. A high psionic, low metal desert world originally printed in 1991. Change Dark to Dim and you have a parody name Dim Sun which is also a play on Dim sum, a kind of appetizer or tea accompaniment in Chinese cooking. For a glance at what it's going to look like go aaaaaall the way back to update #7.

That would be awesome. Sadly, refrigerator magnets are deliberately designed to be very short-ranged; the effects don't accumulate well. The real problem would be keeping them from sticking to *each other.*

@Edgar Rich only gets sent the email details of people who selected rewards, so you definitely will not send you the PDFs unless you take steps for him to be informed. You might be better asking Kickstarter to confirm to Rich how much you paid because he won't know how much you donated.

Question: I pledged 10 without choosing a reward (I live in Australia, so it's likely that just sending the magnet will be more expensive than that. And I'm not thaat interested in it anyway.) But I still get the PDFs, right? :)

Hey, Rich, how did you get the USPS to send you so many flat-rate envelopes (if that's what those are)? I work for a publisher who ships a couple of big orders every year, and we have to order a box every couple of days for months before the shipping date because they won't send us as many as we need in a single shipment.

This whole thing kindof left my mind for a while (though I still refresh the OOTS page every day!) and my mind is re-blown looking at how it all turned out! Congrats again Rich on finally getting rewarded for being so awesome :)

Yeah, those diacritics can be a pain. :-/ I'm one of those diacritically (:-P) named people, and I often have to put a wrong credit card holder name, for example, when shopping in foreign online shops because the shops' programmers were too lazy. Funnily enough, *that's* never caused problems for me...

Hey Rich... Were you able to take care of that diacritic mark problem? If not, if you could somehow find a way to send a sample that does not violate the privacy of those backers with the diacritical names, I could try to help. I'm also sure there are any number of people here who are a whole lot better qualified at it than I am, and some of those folks could help too... (I was thinking of changing the ascii codes of the characters to match whatever encoding your program uses.)